Episodes
20VC: Why Fund Sizes Should Be Smaller, Should Founders Also Have The…
Sheel Mohnot is a Co-Founder and General Partner @ , a $225M fund that leads rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage fintech companies globally. Sheel and Jake (his co-founder) invested for many years together before...
20Sales: Slack, Atlassian, Dropbox: Five of the Biggest Lessons on St…
Kevin Egan is the Global Head of Enterprise Sales at and brings more than 25 years of enterprise sales experience and leadership to the company. Prior to his current role, Kevin served as the Vice President of North America Sales at both and Dropbox...
20VC: Simon Sinek on Trust; How it is Gained and Lost | Why Millennia…
Simon Sinek is an optimist and author, as we discuss in the show today. Simon is best known for his TED Talk on the concept of , and his video on millennials in the workplace (80M views in 7 days). Simon is also a bestselling author including global...
20VC: Why Data Size Matters More Than Model Size, Why The Google Empl…
Douwe Kiela is the CEO of , building the contextual language model to power the future of businesses. Last month Contextual closed a $20M funding round including Bain Capital, Sarah Guo, Elad Gil and 20VC. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Symbolic...
20VC: The Rent the Runway Memo: How Paid Marketing & Growth Hacking R…
Jennifer Hyman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Rent the Runway, the world’s first and largest shared designer closet. Under Jennifer’s leadership, RTR has made history by being the first company to go public with a female founder/CEO, COO, and CFO....
20VC: Eight Pieces of Startup Advice that are BS: Why You Do Not Hav…
Akin Babayigit is a serial entrepreneur and an active angel investor. He is currently the Founder and COO of Tripledot Studios, one of the fastest-growing mobile gaming companies in the world, which was recently valued at over $1.4BN. In just 4 years,...
20VC: How to Raise a Venture Fund from Deck to First Meetings to Fina…
Rob Go is a co-founder and Partner at , one of the leading seed firms of the last decade with a portfolio including Attentive, Devoted Health, , and Grove Collaborative. Prior to co-founding NextView, Rob was an investor at Spark Capital and held...
20Growth: How to Master PR and Comms, How to Get Your Startup Written…
Gina Gotthilf is a Co-Founder and COO at , an a16z-backed platform supporting the next generation of iconic tech startups in Latin America through digital products, a community and fund. Previously, Gina led growth and marketing at from 3 to 200...
20VC: Why No Models Today Will Be Used in a Year, Why Open Will Alway…
Alex Lebrun is the Co-Founder and CEO of , an AI assistant for doctors. Prior to Nabla, he led engineering at . Alex founded Wit.ai, an AI platform that makes it easy to build apps that understand natural human language. Wit.ai was acquired by...
20Product: Slack CPO Noah Weiss on How to Master Product-Led-Growth, …
Noah Weiss is the Chief Product Officer of , overseeing the product team’s strategy and development. Over his seven years at Slack, Noah has led various parts of the product organization, including the self-service SMB business and product-led...
20VC: UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak on Investing More in AI Safety R…
Rishi Sunak is the of the United Kingdom. He was previously appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer from 13 February 2020 to 5 July 2022. He was Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 24 July 2019 to 13 February 2020, and Parliamentary Under Secretary of...
20VC: Larry Summers on How to Manage Inflation; Should We Increase Ra…
Larry Summers is the Former Treasury Secretary and one of America's leading economists. In addition to serving as in the Clinton Administration, Dr. Summers served as in the Obama Administration, as , and as the Chief...
20VC: What are the World's Tech Leaders Running From? Fear? Insecurit…
Orlando Bravo is a Founder and Managing Partner of . He led Thoma Bravo’s early entry into software buyouts and built the firm into one of the top private equity firms in the world. Tobi Lütke is the CEO and Co-Founder of , the...
20Sales: PLG and Early Adopter Sales are Gone, How to do Sales Foreca…
Rich Liu is the CRO @ and a unicorn GTM exec having scaled five multi-billion dollar tech unicorns across two IPOs, a successful acquisition, and numerous funding rounds. Prior to Everlaw, Rich architected the GTM motions for companies like ...
20VC: The Largest Venture Backed D2C Consumer Exit; PillPack: $0-$300…
TJ Parker is the co-founder and former CEO of . TJ Raised over $100M in financing, grew the company to more than 1k employees, and successfully sold the business to Amazon for $1B in 2018. As of last week, TJ was announced as the newest Partner @ ...
20VC: Who Wins the AI Race; Startups or Incumbents & Does Having Prop…
One of the core questions in AI and investing today; who wins, startups or incumbents? Startups have speed and innovation but incumbents have scale, resources, and distribution? Today we hear from 6 leading investors and founders discussing where...
20VC: The On Running Memo: From Swiss Mountains to NASDAQ IPO: The St…
David Alleman is the Co-Founder and Co-Chairman @ one of the fastest-growing global sports brands with over 17 million products sold in 60+ countries. In 2021, On went public on the NASDAQ and today has a market cap of $8.7BN. However, it all started...
20VC: Why Financial Models at Seed, $5M Seed Rounds & The Fear of Sig…
Adam Besvinick is the Founder of , a pre-seed-focused firm started in 2020. Before starting Looking Glass, Adam spent about 5 years at Deep Fork Capital and Anchorage Capital Group investing in pre-seed through Series C. Adam's portfolio across funds...
20Product: How Linkedin Does Product Reviews, A Post-Mortem on Storie…
Tomer Cohen is the CPO @ . Since joining in 2012, Tomer has served in key leadership roles, helping launch and scale new innovative member and customer experiences. He previously led the growth and development of LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions...
20VC: Why Being First To Market Does Not Matter, Why You Do Not Have …
Guy Podjarny is the Founder of , the leading Developer Security platform, helping developers secure as they build. Guy was previously CTO at Akamai, co-founded Blaze.io (acquired by Akamai), and was the product manager of AppScan, the first AppSec...
20VC: Why Your Fund Model Should Not Rely on $10BN+ Outcomes, Why the…
Nico Wittenborn is the Founder of , one of the best early-stage firms created over the last 5 years. Before starting Adjacent, Nico spent over 3 years at Insight Partners in New York and before that learned the craft of venture from some of the best...
20Growth: Three Growth Lessons Scaling Whatsapp from 0-100M, Why You …
Ryan Wiggins is the VP of Growth and Analytics at where he oversees a Growth team and founded the Analytics function. Prior to this, Ryan built Growth teams at WhatsApp, where he helped grow WhatsApp Business from 0->100M users, Workplace, and...
20VC: Why the AI Bubble Will Be Bigger Than The Dot Com Bubble, Why A…
Emad Mostaque is the Co-Founder and CEO @ , the parent company of Stable Diffusion. Stability are building the foundation to activate humanity's potential. To date, Emad has raised over $110M with Stability with the latest round reportedly pricing the...
20VC: Yann LeCun on Why Artificial Intelligence Will Not Dominate Hum…
Yann LeCun is VP & and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science. He was the founding Director of FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science. After a postdoc in...